A new exhibit highlights cultural decadence of Weimar Germany Nov 24, 2006
According to the Met, this is the first exhibition devoted to Verism, the left- leaning, cold-eyed wing of the Neue Sachlichkeit, or New Objectivity, movement that sprang up in Germany after 1920. (While unfamiliar, the term Verism dates from the first Neue Sachlichkeit museum exhibition in Mannheim, Germany, in 1925 ... The Neue Sachlichkeit umbrella covered realists of all stripes, including quite a few disinclined to make waves either artistically or politically. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Grit and Glitz at the Met Nov 16, 2006
The show focuses on the era through the eyes of the Verism branch of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement. At once lucid and illusory, clinical and provocative, the works in the exhibition capture the myriad personalities of the Weimar Republic. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
Einstein's haven Jun 30, 2005
Wachsmann succeeded in showing that the rational, industrialized aesthetic of Neue Sachlichkeit (the "New Objectivity" in design) could be achieved in wood without forsaking craftsmanship. The architect's modernist convictions were not always satisfied, however. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
The mockery of wit Oct 25, 2004
It may be overt in the work of the German Expressionists and the Dadaists who emerged in Germany around World War I, but it is implicit in the Neue Sachlichkeit, or the New Objectivity, which sprang up in the Weimar Republic in the 1920s. The second show, at the Ubu Gallery, concentrates on the Neue Sachlichkeit style itself, and in many regards provides a suitable foil for "Comic Grotesque." At Ubu, the focus is exclusively on orthodox art objects (more than 80 works on canvas and paper) and a... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Read Indepth Article Aug 4, 2004
Coming out of Germany's new objectivity movement (Die Neue Sachlichkeit) that reacted against abstraction in favor of realism, Sander presented a typological difference in portrait studies to what had been previously achieved. Rather than capturing the projected "idea" of a person as had been idealized in classical painting, Sander sought to capture and categorize a person's "essential character." He believed that the camera provided a detached means to go beyond outward appearances into... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Art Listings Apr 30, 2004
This show of 40 works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Emil Nolde, Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Otto Dix, Hannah Hoch, Paula Modersohn-Becker and others touches on the history of German modern art Expressionism, Dadaism, Neue Sachlichkeit from around 1910 through the post-World War I period. Its title is drawn from the early preference of the Expressionists for rural places versus their later attraction to the city. (New York Times)
The master at work Apr 7, 2004
The fact that he is one of Sigmund's grandsons does not do a lot to characterise the feel of his work, which, despite early parallels to German Neue Sachlichkeit portraiture in the 20s, is more often lyrical than clinical, though the lyricism sometimes partakes of melancholy. Witness the enchanting little picture of Freud's grandson, the little boy Albie, with his cheeky lobe of tongue poking out; or even more, the portrait of Frances Costelloe, 2003, a girl given over to absorption like any... (Google News UK -- Entertainment)
Art Market On Rebound Nov 11, 2003
New auction records were set for Klimt, Jawlensky, Metzinger and the little-known Neue Sachlichkeit artist Georg Scholz at Sotheby's, and for Modigliani, L;ger and Moore at Christie's. Despite the garishly inaccurate colors in Christie's catalog (the designer responsible has since left), the top lots sold well (Forbes)
